Device for tying bags.



No. 635,257. Patented Oct. I7, |899. H. T. KNIGHT.

DEVICE FOB TYING BAGS.

(Application led Apr. 28, 1899.) (N o M o d el IWI/265865 [m42/zia? UNITED STATES PATENT EETCE.

DEVICE FOR T'YING BAGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,257, dated October 17, 1899.

Application filed April 28, 1899. Serial No. 714,905. (No model.) i

To all whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that LHENEY THOMAS KNIGHT, mechanic, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful lm provements in Devices for Tying Bags; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for tying bags in which semicircular sections of strong wire are employed, each piece linked to the other, the whole forming a ring designed to encircle the-mouth of the bag; and the object of my invention is to provide a durable, cheap, and thoroughly efiicient tie for the purpose named. I attain these objects by the description illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a det-ail view of the tie opened. Fig. 2 is a sectional view. Fig. 3

, is the securing device. Fig. 4 is the lever attachment.

The body of the ring is composed of two semicircular sections of wire of some strong material, the one end of each section being looped together. The object of looping them together is to allow of an easy opening operation. If it were one piece of circular wire, the continual opening of the ring would, I claim, break the wire in the center. I therefore form the ring in two or more sections. On the one end of one of these sections is aY closed loop. Intothis loop is inserted a short piece of wire suitably shaped, which I will terni a leven The one end of this lever is looped into the loop of the semicircular section, the loops together being closed, thus securing the same to that end of what I will call the ring. The opposite end of the other semicircular section of the ring is provided with a hook-shaped end intended for' the reception of the lever, 4which is securely attached to the other end of the ring. By bringing the lever into the hook-shaped end it will be easily seen that when you draw on the lever it will bring the two semicircular sections together more easily than by simply drawing them together by hand. On the same loop end to which is attached the lever I have provided a short hook, which I term the securing device. The one end of this device is looped securely into the loop of one of the semicircular sections. The other end of this device is hook-shaped and is designed to catch into the opposite hookshaped end of the semicircular section into which the lever has already been shown to catch, so that when the two ends of the semicircular section are drawn together by the lever this securing device is hooked into the hooked end ol the semicircular section. Then the lever is released and the hooked securing device holds the semicircular section together, making a continuous ring in sections. The mouth of the bag gathered and this tie being placed around, as described, makes a very secure and easily-operated tie and completelyv does away with string or any of the old and hard to-operate methods already in use. The whole tie can be attached to the bag by means of a clenched staple or can be sewed onto the bag and is always in place and ready to operate when desired.

In order that this description may be more easily understood, I invite attention to the accompanying drawings, in which- 5 5 are the semicircular sections. These sections are linked together at G. On the end 7 is a closed loop, into which is looped the lever S and also the securing device 9. On the other end ofthe one semicircular section at 10 is the hook-shaped end for the reception ofthe lever 8 and also for the reception of the securing device 9. The securing device is hook-shaped at 11 and designed to catch into the hook-shaped end 10, the lever 8 also being brought int-othe hook-shaped end 10 and designed to be drawn back to the end 7, thereby bringing the two ends 7 and 10 near enough together to allow the securing device 9 to catch into the hooked end 10, then releasing the lever 8. The hook being caught makes a continuous tie or ring.

The advantage of my invention is principally its compactness, simplicity, and inexpensiveness and its thorough efficiency, producing a combination which is practical in every respect and will ll a long-felt want.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a tie for bags, made of two semicircular IOO they are adapted to encircle and receive the mouth of a bag, substantially as described. Io

Toronto, April 5, A. D. 1899.

HENRY THOMAS KNIGHT.

In presence of- I'IEoToR MOWAT, FRANCIS HoRE. 

